Let's say we need to locate books for a film history research paper. Our topic is horror films.

If we do a Subject search on horror films, the catalog gives us 126 hits. (See Figure 27)

Figure 27

It turns out that horror films is a subject heading! Look at the results list above. Notice that the main subject heading (horror films) is listed, followed by subheadings which are indented. Main headings become even more specific with subheadings. For example, the subheading HISTORY AND CRITICISM means that there are 50 items about the history and criticism of horror films. This appears to be exactly what we need. Click on the link to see the list of all 50 of those items.

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Now, we want to look for books on movies in general for an extra-credit assignment for the same film criticism class.

Because we did so well with subject searches, and we realize just how valuable they are, we decide to do another subject search, but this time using movies as our search term.

Figure 28

Oops, this time we weren't so lucky. The catalog tells us that we should search under motion pictures instead of movies. (See Figure 28 above)

If we click on the MOTION PICTURES link, we get a list of subheadings dealing with motion pictures, such as:

Figure 29

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